The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30

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yant Of harmony between the shawl and
i,glove on the same person, a curt answer,
assing slight, the wind from the east, any
n ohof ten thousand annoyances, opens the
~ for the hornet The fact is,
a. the vast majority Of the people in
country are overworked, and their
are the first to give out A great null
ire under the strain of Leyden, who,
was told by his physician that If ne
stop working while he was in such
sical health he would die, responded:
wheth,r live or die the wheel must
Ag s1GNraI = ees.l .lGiQ Of wsaGp wsp
/ sneak Ave T,leetliDg sonslnyeness. The
tiies loyeo light Sm Anything raw, and thse
people ar like TIA Can.aaasliies snnksz OF In
the text q in the Hcontext-they nave very
thin coverng and re vulnerable at all points.
And the Lsrd Sent te hornet.
Again, these smaA insect annoyances may
ouaintances who ard always saying disagree
able things. There de some people you can
mot be with for haitian hour but you feel
cheered and comfor\ed Then there are
other people you cahot be with for five
minute, before you fed miserable. They do
not mean to disturb yots but they sting you
to the bone They galnr up all the yarn
which the gossips spin, lad peddle it. They
gather mp all the advise criticisms about
home, about your church and they make your
ear the funnel into which, they pour it. They
laugh heartily when they Ill you, as thought
were good joke, and yo, laugh too-outSide
These people are broughteo our attention in
the Bible, in the Book ofe2uth: Naomi went
forth beautiful and with t;e finest Of worldly
prospects into another laid, but after awhile
she came back widowed, nd sick, and poor.
What did her friends Go Nhen she came back
xyo1I ont InCfnQd
of giving her common-$nse consolation, what
did they do? Read the ,ook Of Ruth and find
out. They threw up teir hands and said,
s.Is this Naomi." as NTH as to say, Chow
very" bad you look' When I entered the
Ministry I looked vere pale for years,
and every year, for fom or five years,
hundred times year, l vas asked If was
the room would sometimes hear people sigh
and cry: "A-ah! not long for this world!"
resolved in those times that l never, In any
conversation, would say anything depressing,
and by the help of God have kept the reso-
luton These people of whom speak reap
and bind in the great harvest field of dis
couragement. Some days you greet them
with a hilarious ''good-morning," ard they
come buzzing at you with some depfssiDg
net 1t is astonishing how some ,eople
prefer to write and to say disagreabls
things That was the case when, year ago,
Henry n. Stanley returned after his mrgnif.
cent expoit Of finding Doctor David Living
ston, and when Mr.. Stanley stood befop the
savants Of Europe, and many Of the Jrau
critics Of the day, under pretense Of getting
geographical information, put to him most
insolent questions, he folded his arms aid re-
fused TO answer. At the very time whel you
would have supposed all decent men would
have applauded the heroism of the man here
were those to hiss. The Lord sent the hornet
When that man sat down on the weItern
coast Of Africa, sick and worn, perhaps, n tho
grandest achievement Of the age in the way of
geographical discovery there were small critics
all over the world to buzz and buzz and
caricature and deride him; and when few
weeks after that he got the London paprs, US
he opened them, out few the hornet. When
see that there are so many people IN the
world who like to say disagreeable thin.s, and
write disagreeable things, come almost in
my weaker moments to believe what man
said to me in Philadelphia one Monday morn
ing. went to get the horse that wasat the
livery, and the hoStler, a plain man, said to
me: Mr.. Talmage, saw that you preached
to the young men yesterday" I said: "Yes. VI
He said: NO use, no use; mans failure"
The small insect annoyanceS Of life some
times come in the shape of q local physical
trouble, which does not amount to positive
prostration, but which bothers you when
YOU want to feel the best. Perhaps it is a
sick headache which has been the plague OF
your life, and you appoint some occasion OF
mirth, or socality, or usefulness, and wheT,
the clock strikes the hour you cannot make
your appearance. Perhaps the trouble is be
tween the ear and the forehead, in the shape
of aneuralgic twinge Nobody can see it OF
sympathize with you; but Just at the time
when you want your intellect clearest. and
H,.,r charn
keen, disconcerting thrust The Lord SEN
the hornet
Perhaps these small insect annoyances will
come in the shape Of a domestic irritation
The parlor and the kitchen do not always
harmonize. To get good service and to keel
it is one Of the great questions of the country
Sometimes it may be the aIrogancy and in
considerateneSs of employers: but whatever
be the fact, we will admit there are these In
sect annoyances winging their way
out from the culinary department; l
the grace of God be not in the hear
Of the :htousekeeperr, she cannot MAINTAIN II
her equilibrium. The men come home a
night and hear the story of these annoyances
and say: so! these home troubles are yer.
little things" They are small, small q
wasps, but they sting. Marthas nerves wer,
all unstrung when she rushed in asking Chris
to reprove Mary, and there are tens OF thou
sands Of women who are dying, stung to deati
Dy these pestiferous domestic annoyancts
The Lord sent the hornet.
These small insect disturbances may ais
come in the shape of business irritationl
There are men here who went through 1S5
and Sept. "A, 1869, without losing their bal
ance, who are every day unhorsed by l!ttl
annoyances-a clerks i'll manners, or bio
of ink on bill of lading, or the e1travaganc
of a partner who overdraws his account,
the underselling by a business rival, Q
the whispering of BUSINESS condolences i
the street, or the making of some lii
tie bad debt which was against you
Judgment, just to please somebody else 1t I L
not the panicS that kill the merchants fanlc
come only once in ten or twenty years. 1t
the constant din of these everyday annoy
azn-o rxhinh 10 sanding co many of QIlr beS